PHP - password_verify issue

Question

I have been scratching my head on this for over 2 hours. I have researched articles on stackoverflow including:

• Issue with Bcrypt not verifying correctly

Answer 1

Problem was in the database - nothing to do with password_verify or password_hash. Datatype had a maximum amount of characters (only defined to 40 as I was made to by MySQL when creating tables). Moved to 60 and no more issues.